Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India by Laurie Patton

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Introduction, Laurie L. Patton

Part II. Ancient Arguments

1. The Housemistress at the Door: Vedic and Buddhist Perspectives on the Mendicant Encounter, Ellison Banks Findly

2. Ritual Rights: The Gender Implications of Adhikara, Mary McGee

3. Mantras and Miscarriage: Controlling Birth in the Late Vedic Period, Laurie L. Patton

Part II. Classical Arguments

4. Giver or Given? Some Marriages in Kalidasa, Stephanie W. Jamison

5. Om, the Vedas, and the Status of Women with Special Reference to Srivaisnavism, Katherine K. Young

6. Casting Light on the Sounds of the Tamil Veda: Tirukkoneri Dasyai's "Garland of Words", Vasudha Narayanan

Part III. Reform and Contemporary Arguments

7. By What Authority? Hindu Women and the Legitimization of Reform in the Nineteenth Century, Nancy Auer Falk

8. Hindu Nationalist Women: On the Use of the Feminine Symbolic to (Temporarily) Displace Male Authority, Paola Bacchetta

9. Counterpoint Authority in Women's Ritual Expressions: A View from the Village, Ann Grodzins Gold

Afterword, Laurie L. Patton

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